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Melt Banana: Bambi's Dilemma

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Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

01:16 / 26.04.07

Production sounds better through my PC speakers than the iRiver. Maybe I need new headphones.

Mike Modular

01:58 / 26.04.07

I can assure you that it sounds 'right' on my speakers (being, as they are, proper 'pro' monitors) so maybe yr headphones can't handle the rawk...

Yeah, the slower tracks, 'Type: Ecco System' and 'Last Target On The Last Day' stand out against the usual, er, fastness but they're great and strange and, er, yeah, great. Otherwise, a right rockin' ride and 'Blank Page of the Blind' is the one I keep going back to, being a rollocking riff-o-rama. Type thing.

Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

03:32 / 26.04.07

Yeah, I may have just blown the bass on them. Sounds great on everything else.

El Directo

11:14 / 26.04.07

Nah, I'm not going to listen to this until I have my purchased copy in my hands. I enjoyed waiting for I'll Sleep When You're Dead so much that I've decided I'll be a stickler for release dates when I'm excited about something.

Saveloy

11:40 / 26.04.07

Am I alright to order this on the 30th? I get paid then. If I order it before that date, I will not be able to afford food and clothes for my wife and child.

ghadis

16:19 / 26.04.07

The whole thing is pretty fucking fantastic although i've stopped playing it so much lest i overplay it to death. My Melt Bananna education continues, however, as i picked up Scratch or Stitch yesterday. Wow! What do people recommend next? Cell Scrape?

El Directo

12:14 / 27.04.07

Cell Scape, Teeny Shiny and Charlie are all fabulous.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

13:00 / 27.04.07

I've downloaded it, but not yet listened to Bambi's Dilemma. Soon, though.

Nuke Kids on the Bloc
(prev. The Freewheeling Penis)

01:03 / 28.04.07

It's the full package alright. I could jump round like a smacked-up kangaroo to this. And have done. Loving the theremin. Love it.

El Directo

22:27 / 30.04.07

Melt Banana in normal sounding rock/pop band shock!

I've decided I'm iggying all of you though. Starting from... yesterday!

Transfer's butler, Sebastian
(prev. Seele Schneider)

23:52 / 30.04.07

"WATCH OUT! YOU'RE GONNA GET LOST!"

Damn, I guess there's no point in my coming back here to post that the best tribute I can pay to Melt Banana and their new record is to say that more than any other band right now, they inspire me to onomatopoeia, bordering on idioglossia, when speaking of their music.

Who would you rather hear more about... a band who make music that's by turns VWAAARRN, BBLLOORROUUCGHHGH and ULLEEEEIIII (when it isn't SHHRRAAFFFF)... or The View?

Be serious.

MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!

15:13 / 01.05.07

Sacreligious question, I know, but I'm looking at the eMusic entry for Bambi's Dilemma in another tab and asking myself the age-old question "do I want to use one of these downloads on a track that is 32 seconds long?"

Are the <1 minute tracks worth it?

Saveloy

11:25 / 02.05.07

After one listen, my impression is that those short tracks kinda merge into one extended noise freakout and I wouldn't be massively gutted if they weren't there. It's the point at which they drop the riffs and the tunes and the, er, structure with the mad angles and that, and it goes messy in a not partuicularly exciting way. But I'll probably completely change my mind after a couple more listens.

El Directo

11:34 / 03.05.07

I like the short ones myself.

My only issue with this record seems to be its thrown together feel. The tracks, while great individually, don't seem to have been ordered particularly effectively, and it leaves the record sounding disjointed as a whole in a way that the last three albums weren't.

Still... wicked record.

Gendudehashadenough

21:24 / 16.05.07

I know I may be on the for-all-Barbeternity ignore list right now, but this album smokes out that grounhog like it's firecracker new year in the fucking salt-peter mines. Vocals are superbly displayed and wow if that jump-pace break on "Cracked Plaster Cast" doesn't electrify your neck, nothing will.

Thoroughly impressed;this is the best album I've listened in many many years. Reminds me of the first time I heard Pennywise s/t.

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